Build your own safer home
Re|shelter’s Safer Housing Listings
Land for Sale
completed projects
Hemenway House
• Building an MCS House photo tour
• LA Times Health Feature 7.24.09
• LA Times Photo Essay 7.24.09
Desert Moon House
• Initial planning
• Working with contractors
• Design of a healthy house
• Low-EMF wiring
Lagoon Point House
• Interview with the client
• Tour of the home
• Universal principles for building healthy homes
Leslie’s Safe House Project page 2
MCS Hybrid Homestead in the High Desert
Research House for the Environmentally Hypersensitive
The Sawmill House
• An Efficient and Healthy House in the Rocky Mountains
• Lessons Learned
guidance
General Instructions for making a “Safe Room”
IEQ Indoor Environmental Quality Project Report on providing safer indoor air environments, created with much input from MCS housing activists Mary Lamielle (National Center for Environmental Health Strategies), Ann McCampbell, MD (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Task Force of New Mexico), Susan Molloy (National Coalition for the Chemically Injured), and Toni Temple (Ohio Network for the Chemically Injured).
• Operations and Maintenance
• Designated Cleaner Air Rooms
• Design and Construction
• Building Products and Materials
Planet Thrive’s Safer Housing Issues Discussion and Safer Housing Group Where members share about chemical free renovations, safer building materials, and non-toxic construction projects.
Safer Construction Tips for the Environmentally Sensitive
Safer Housing articles at EI Wellspring
Tiny Homes—An Alternative for People with Chemical Sensitivities
Understanding & Accommodating People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity in Independent Living
• Current housing conditions for those with MCS
• How does one create a safe living space?
• How to help
consultants
Safer Remodel
tiny house consultants
Vardo for Two
Mokihana and Pete completed their own Vardo for Two and are considering the ways in which they can work with you to build your very own. Contact them through their blog to start the discussion.
Leslie’s Safe House Project page 2
Inspired by tiny Tumbleweed Houses, Leslie is building her own non-toxic tiny house on wheels. Her vision: “to buy land in one or more places, and have communities of MCS people living there in these little movable homes.” If this interests you, let her know via her blog. If there is enough demand, she will put together a business plan for producing these tiny homes for others.
related illnesses
alzheimer’s disease
At Home with Alzheimer’s Disease
autism spectrum disorder
Housing options for people with learning disabilities
chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis
Emergency Services For Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients: Where To Go When You Need Help
Providing Shelter for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
Solving the Unmet Problems of Daily Living and Housing for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
non-mcs/green
Green Building Recommendations
top photo: The Desert Moon House is a passive-solar designed, low-chem, low-EMF house built entirely on DC-electric and powered by propane and the sun.
